revamping clothes with personal elements, creating bold new recipes, taking pictures, writing, playing the piano, swimming, camping, fishing, anything craft-y, creating things, tasting wines, and cooking out.

I don’t watch a lot of TV the two shows I can’t miss are House and Gossip Girl.

If I am extremely bored and/or too tired to do fun stuff, I watch the X Files, Mad Men, My Name is Earl, Chuck, Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons and/or Private Practice.

Donnie Darko, Kill Bill: Vol. I and II, The Hudsucker Proxy, Just Friends, The Butterfly Effect, The Shining, No Country For Old Men, Death Proof, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Devil Wears Prada, Down By Law, Resident Evil: Extinction, The Prestige, Sin City, 300, Reservoir Dogs, The Illusionist, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Professional, A Clockwork Orange, Alice in Wonderland, Beowulf, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Gone With the Wind, Beetlejuice, E.T., Office Space, Anchorman, Pulp Fiction, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, Cool Hand Luke, Rebecca and Clueless.

Elle, Glamour, Bitch, Jane - sadly no longer published :(, Real Simple, and (occasionally I break down and buy one of these, but it never meets my expectations) Cosmo.

an exhaustive list, if you want to know, just ask. I will put some on here when i have more time…

I like reading anything by Aristotle, Chuck Palanuik, Jack Kerouac, and much more.

Check out my goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1238188

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
— Mark Twain

“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
— Tom Waits

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
— Agatha Christie

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.”
— James Nicoll

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
— Mark Twain

“Inconceivable!”

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ”
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.”
— Rudyard Kipling

“Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
— Louis Pasteur

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things
Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-
Of cabbages-and kings-
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings.
”
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass)

“If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“For sure, they don’t teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who’d stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.”
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
— Jon Stewart

“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. ”
— Jon Stewart